Alison Clouston was born in Porirua, New Zealand. Completing a Diploma of Fine Arts from Canterbury University, she was chosen as one of 12 New Zealand sculptors to participate in The First Australian Sculpture Triennial. Settling in NSW, she has pursued her abiding passion for the land, and the interaction of people and the natural world, collaborating with musician and sound artist Boyd.
Alison's work has been included in major national survey shows including The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial at Heide in Melbourne, the Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and Australian Perspecta at the Art Gallery of NSW. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the Hugh Williamson Emerging Artist Prize (winner), and recently, the Australia Council London Studio and the outback residency and nationally touring exhibition "Kuru Alala (Eyes Open)" with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Maria Fernanada Cardoso.
Recent collaborative projects with Boyd include World Tree (part two) 2007 Bird Cry from the Grassy Box Woodlands, 2008 both at Goulburn Regional Gallery and Sydney University. Alison's work was included in the United Nations Environment Programme international exhibition "Towards A Balanced Earth" at Te Papa Tongarewa in 2008 and the Suter Gallery's "Creature Discomfits" in 2009.
She has held numerous solo exhibitions with Mori Gallery and Ray Hughes Gallery in Sydney, and is now exclusively represented in New Zealand by Bowen Galleries.